Emma Brodie > Quotes

“The truth is, there's no such thing as a normal life. There's just the time you get and how you spend it...Love is always a risk.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“For that was the true cost of happiness: never knowing when it might be lost.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“I’m saying that I’ve had years to adjust to the fact that I’m not capable of loving another person the way that I love you.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“We better get back," said AJ, disappointed. "Dave will think I kidnapped you."
"Dave wouldn't think that," said Noah, taking her trash and stacking it on top of his. "He knows I'd follow you anywhere."
He said it easily, and AJ pretended that it hadn't stopped her heart, and they turned away, leaving Atlas to carry heavier things.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Noah’s love for AJ was absolute, his desire to leave her non-existent; but their future didn’t hinge not on Noah’s heart so much as his capacity for uncertainty. For that was the true cost of happiness: never knowing when it might be lost.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Your scene partner is your life. If this is to work, you must follow them wherever they go. You must follow them to the end, into death if necessary.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“The mind thinks, but the body knows.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“She was adrift on a raft, and these songs, forming around her, were the constellations that would guide her onward.”
― Emma Brodie, Songs in Ursa Major

“It's a terrible thing to stand in the wings, haunted by the specter of your younger self.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“The silence that exists between two people contains entire universes, Ezell had written.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“The truth is, there is no such thing as a normal life. There's just the time you get and how you spend it.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“The first scene we ever did, the one that made you run away? he said, his eyes shining. I wasn't acting at all. I really was that in love with you. I still am.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“I just stared and stared at the stage door, thinking how I’d fucking lied to myself. I love you. There was no end date that could make this hurt less—no plan that could fix it. And if I walked away thinking that would somehow lessen the pain, then I was not only a coward but a fool.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Don’t you get it?” he said, incredulous. “Without you, life is nice and easy and yes, maybe just a little empty, and if I have to go, so be it. But if you are there—” He had to pause. “If you’re there, life is messy and unpredictable and beautiful. And when it’s time to do this thing I have—I have to do it—I won’t. I won’t be able to.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Laughter is a response to psychic death. We could have died. We didn’t. So we laugh.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Seeds contain cyanide. Laughter is a gasp. Beginnings and endings are born at once.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“And once more, AJ and Noah vanished into those timeless lovers.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Reality isn't always reality ... Sometimes stories are truer than life”
― Emma Brodie, Songs in Ursa Major

“Her head fit perfectly under his chin. This feeling was beyond good—it was safe and warm and right. It was home.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“To the woman in my life—you know who you are. Hopefully. I love you. Thank you.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“She wove sails out of melodies and hoisted them with verse.”
― Emma Brodie, Songs in Ursa Major

“Today something remarkable happened. A girl came to the house.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Falling in love was like being a celebrity to one person. The irony was that Noah was actually famous.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“All people play games. They’re given to us by parents, teachers, and society at large, the scripts written long in advance. Here’s what they’ll never tell you: you don’t have to play.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“She had fought so hard to be correct about this. But what was correct wasn’t always right.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“If you wish to be true, you will not be able to shy away from what is hard and what is ugly. You will have to say things you don't wish to say and do things you don't wish to do. You will have to crawl in filth while your scene partner shines in the spotlight and do it with merriness in your heart...”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue: A Love Story

“Were good peoples’ lives really so easily destroyed? Or had the wide-open future always been a myth?”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Empathy was not predictive. Being able to feel or even influence a person’s emotions was not the same as being able to influence their actions.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Even decades later, it’s clear they cherish each other. You wouldn’t think to look at them now, she with her cane, he with his cap, that they once walked among us as gods.”
― Emma Brodie, Songs in Ursa Major

“This pain was all she was. It was all she would ever be. It was going to consume her”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue